Billionaire investor George Soros is firing back at his Brazilian ex-lover, soap star Adriana Ferreyr, who is suing him for $50 million — claiming the attractive brunette is a money-grabber desperately trying to “extort” him for his millions.
The Post exclusively revealed in August that Soros, 81, worth an estimated $14.5 billion, was being sued by Ferreyr, 28, who claimed he dumped her after a five-year relationship and reneged on an agreement to buy her a $1.9 million Upper East Side apartment.
Soros’ lawyer, William D. Zabel, last night served Ferreyr’s lawyers with papers arguing the case should be dismissed.
The papers, seen by Page Six, state that Soros and Ferreyr had an “on-again, off-again and non-exclusive intimate relationship.” But it claims she “hoped to extract even more from Soros — millions more,” and says her lawsuit is “part of her continued quest to cash in on their casual relationship.”
Blasting Ferreyr’s claim in her court filing that Soros was obligated to buy her an apartment as “patently preposterous,” the papers state that she “may have been disappointed that Soros moved onto other women, ending her hopes of living in an extravagant ‘dream apartment’ for free.”
Ferreyr claimed in her blockbuster lawsuit filed at Manhattan Supreme Court that Soros threw a lamp and “attempted to choke her” as they argued in bed together at his Manhattan home in August 2010.
This claim is blasted by Soros as “odious and utterly baseless.” His lawyers argue the police report shows that the lamp “fell on [Ferreyr’s] right foot,” adding it makes no mention of choking and she told police, “She was not fearful of Soros.”
But Ferreyr’s lawyer, Robert Hantman, told us, “These are chauvinistic and simplistic statements which are devoid of any reality.”
Hantman added, “I do not believe this motion to dismiss will be successful.”